Rainer Rettig

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Rainer Rettig (born December 11, 1953 in Lörzenbach ) is a German physiologist and professor at the University of Greifswald . His professional areas of expertise are cardiovascular regulation , hypertension and kidney functions .

Life

Rettig studied human medicine and biopsychology at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Iowa from 1972 to 1981 . In the meantime, in 1973 and 1974, he worked for the German Red Cross in Heppenheim as a community service provider. His medical state examination as well as the license to practice medicine and doctorate to Dr. med. took place in 1981. He then received a research grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the Institute for Pharmacology at Heidelberg University.

From 1983 to 1985 he worked as a research assistant at the Department of Pharmacology at the University of California . He then worked from 1986 to 1994 as a research assistant and university lecturer at the Institute for Pharmacology at Heidelberg University. Here he completed his habilitation in 1989 in the field of pharmacology and toxicology. From 1994 to 2001 he was university professor for physiology at the University of Greifswald, where he has held the professorship for physiology and is the managing director of the institute for physiology.

Rettig is also a member of the German Institute for High Blood Pressure Research (DIB), the German Hypertension Society (DHL) and the German Physiological Society (DPG). Internationally, he is a member of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH), the European Council for Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Research , the American Heart Association and the American Physiological Society .

In addition, Rettig served as the dean of studies at the University Medical Center Greifswald until April 2018 and was a member of the scholarship awarding committee of the youth development program named after Gerhard Domagk .

Fonts (selection)

  • About renal and extrarenal mechanisms of thirst induction after stimulation of beta-adrenergic receptors. (= Dissertation , University of Heidelberg). 1981, DNB 840410344 .
  • Immobilized antioxidants for ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymers. (= Dissertation, Technical University Darmstadt). 1988, DNB 941994430 .
  • with D. Ganten, Friedrich C. Luft: Salt and hypertension: dietary minerals, volume homeostatis, and cardiovascular regulation. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1989 ISBN 3-540-50063-4 .
  • The role of the kidney in primary hypertension. (= Habilitation , Heidelberg University). 1989, OCLC 311183587 .
  • with Jörg Peters (ed.): Antihypertensives. Physiology, pharmacology and clinical application. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8047-2277-4 .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Rainer Rettig CV and publications. Medizin.uni-greifswald.de ( Memento from September 3, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ).
  2. ↑ Gerhard Domagk's youth development program ( memento from July 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on medizin.uni-egoswald.de, accessed on September 3, 2013.
  3. ↑ a b Dieter Klaus Award for High Pressure Research and Franz Gross Science Award at hochdruckliga.de, accessed on September 3, 2013.
  4. ^ Winner of the Franz Volhard Prize on dgfn.eu, accessed on September 3, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Rettig, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Lozenbach